Rowan girls’s swimming fell to Salisbury for the third straight yr on Saturday, 177.5-84.5, on the Maggs Pool in Salisbury, Maryland. It’s Rowan’s first lack of the season, tabbing their report at 2-1.
As competitors progressed via a non-conference at Salisbury, the Rowan girls’s swimming workforce may hardly even inform in the event that they have been swimming nicely. That’s as a result of Salisbury’s pool is measured in meters, not the standard yards that the Profs, like many packages across the nation, are acquainted with.
“It was very hard for our staff to accurately measure and identify how we were doing,” Head coach Elise Fisher mentioned. “Not only were we comparing to the competition, but now we were trying to convert times from meters to yards and identify ‘Are we doing well?’ or ‘Are they doing just really well?’ It was just challenging, and I admit that.”
Kaitlyn Crouthamel, a junior who’s began the yr actually strongly, positioned second in her favourite occasion of the 200 Individual medley. She additionally tied for first place within the 400 Free, tying Salisbury swimmer Rowan O’Donoghue at 4:35.16, and splitting 6.50 factors every manner.
“That was a first,” Crouthamel mentioned. “I feel like tying in a (50 Free) is one thing, but to tie in a 400, I feel like the odds of that were so low. I was ecstatic with it, just to be able to keep up with Salisbury, who has a lot of really good girls.”
Sophomore Rhylee Cornell, who earned New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Swimmer of the Week after Rowan’s first meet in opposition to Stevens, additionally swam nicely within the loss. Cornell had runner-up finishes in each the 100 and 200 Breaststroke, with occasions of 1:15.42 and a couple of:45.01, respectively.
“I feel like we did all that we could,” Cornell mentioned. “We tried as hard as we could. And there’s a lot of effort shown, despite not coming out as the winners.”
Senior Ella Pennington swam in her second meet this season at Salisbury, after incomes NJAC Swimmer of the Week in her first meet at Montclair State. Pennington positioned first within the 100 and 200 Backstroke occasions, in addition to the 100 Butterfly. Both backstroke occasions of 1:03.64 within the 100 and a couple of:20.42 within the 200 broke facility information.
Now, the workforce units its sights on one other out-of-conference meet at West Chester on Saturday at 11 a.m. earlier than a 13-day break.
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